New robot applications increasingly require external sensing to accomplish robustness and performance despite the variations and uncertainties that come with the increasing demands on flexibility for manufacturing of customized products. The demands on productivity then require high performance, which for well known feedback-control reasons means short response times from external process event to

Water scarcity is one of the main challenges facing Middle Eastern countries. A typical country in this respect is Syria. This paper estimates projections for the available water resources, water balance, and available water per capita (AWPC) in Syria until 2050 in relation to possible future climate changes, national development agendas, water constraints, and water management alternatives. Resul

Closed-form solutions for the plastic response of a symmetric double-lap joint are presented. The adherents are assumed to behave linear elastically in pure tension, whereas the adhesive is assumed to be in a state of pure shear. The shear stress-strain behavior of the adhesive is approximated by a bilinear curve, and both hardening plasticity approximating ductile adhesive behavior, and softening

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Den fackliga organisationsgradens utveckling i Sverige mellan oktober 2006 och oktober 2007 redovisas. Under denna 12-månadersperiod föll andelen fackligt anslutna löntagare med drygt fyra procentenheter. Om man avrundar till heltal rör det sig om ett medlemsras på hela fem procentenheter, från 77 till 72 procent fackanslutna. Det är den största fackliga nedgången under loppet av ett enda år i Sve

The sharing of computer programs, movies and music over the Internet marks an all time high in the persistent controversy between intellectual property owners and reproduction technologies as file sharing has gradually become a natural element in the everyday life of today’s younger generations. At present, the magnitude of the expanding gulf between traditional society’s intellectual property rig

This thesis is based on three projects that deal with vertical III-V semiconductor devices. The work spans over basic research as well as more applied aspects of III-V semiconductor technology. All projects have in common that they rely on advanced epitaxial growth to form the starting material for device fabrication.In chapter two, zero-dimensional Quantum Dots (QDs) are incorporated into electro

An investigation into the design of neural network controlled autonomous agents that navigate in uncertain environments using pre-existing visual landmarks.

Abstract in Chinese 從社會投資（social investment）的社會福利的角度來看，花蓮的發展，長期以來，著重在修復（repair）人口外移與老化的困境，而非預防（prevent）這個現象發生的原因。如果花蓮真的要強調永續發展，我覺得創新的思維應該要著重在預防，像是我們如何把人留下來？把好的產業留下來？〈花東地區發展條例〉裡提到人才東移的政策，花蓮縣綜合實施方案應該要更細部的討論這個部份，不是只有簡化成消費原住民文化的觀光產業，再者，如果觀光或是鄉村旅遊是花蓮發展很重要的一環，我們的教育準備好了嗎？ 最後，在其他國家對鄉村發展大多採用低衝擊的開發（Low impact development）的今天，我們能不能勇敢的說，我們不需要靠空中纜車，也可以欣賞到美景，我們不需要賽車場，也可以找到觀光的出路呢？ 花蓮縣政府在九月十六日舉辦了花蓮縣綜合實施方案初稿的聽證會，

This thesis utilises qualitative methods to examine what drives / impedes corporate action on climate change in the Swedish electricity industry. Reasoning from new institutional theory, this thesis examines the role of institutional logics as a determinant of corporate actions. Institutional logics are shared cognitively institutionalised structures that are thought to limit individuals’ capacity

This study has focused on: (i) differences in how males and females use the genes in the genome, (ii) how sex chromosomes evolve and (iii) how the evolutionary rate of genes are affected by the chromosome on which they are located on and the gene expression level they experience. A large-scale microarray was developed for the zebra finch, Taeniopygia guttata and techniques were developed so that t

This contribution traces the international contacts and impact of the leader school for German doctors ('Führerschule der deutschen Arzteschaft') in Alt Rehse 1935-1943 through studies of a visitors' book and of biographies.We suggest that the 'Föhrerschule', an institution providing political and ideological education for health professionals, interested non-German physicians to a larger extent t